In its latest move against the Iranian regime’s missile program, the United States has imposed sanctions on six individuals and twelve entities in Iran, China, and Hong Kong. The measure aims to disrupt the regime’s missile technology supply chain.
On Wednesday, May 14, 2025, the United States announced a new round of sanctions against six individuals and twelve entities in Iran, China, and Hong Kong. These individuals and companies are sanctioned for participating in efforts by the Iranian regime to develop its ballistic missile program—a pursuit U.S. officials describe as a serious threat to regional and international peace and stability.
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These sanctions have been implemented under Executive Order 13382 and coordinated by the U.S. Departments of State and Commerce. According to an official statement by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the action is intended to disrupt the technical and logistical supply chain of Iran’s missile program and prevent Tehran from acquiring advanced technologies.
The OFAC statement explains that the sanctioned entities and individuals played a key role in procuring and supplying sensitive items—including carbon fiber, specialized centrifuges, and equipment used in the production of intercontinental missiles—for Iran. These items are technologies commonly used in the development of advanced ballistic missiles and are subject to international sanctions.
List of Sanctioned Entities: From Iran to East Asia
On this list, the Iranian company Advanced Fiber Development Company (AFDCO), along with several of its executives—including Mohammad Rezai and Hamed Dehghan—has been sanctioned due to its collaboration with the Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organization, which operates under the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The list also includes Pishtazan Kavosh Gostar Boshra LLC (PKGB) and several other Iran-based technology firms. Alongside these Iranian entities and individuals, the United States has also sanctioned several Chinese companies and nationals for their support of Iran’s missile program.
Among them is Shanghai Tanchain New Material Technology Co Ltd, which has directly exported carbon fiber to Iran. The company’s executives have been sanctioned for collaborating with networks that supply sensitive items to already sanctioned Iranian entities. Subsidiaries of this Chinese company operating in China and Hong Kong—such as Reso Trading and Super Sources—have also been added to the sanctions list due to being owned or operated by sanctioned individuals.
These sanctions come at a time when the Iranian regime has, in recent years, been seeking to localize production of components needed for its missile program while simultaneously working to circumvent international sanctions through a complex network of front and intermediary companies.
In the final part of the statements, the U.S. government called on its allies and partners in Europe and Asia to take these sanctions seriously and to adopt similar measures to cut off the Iranian regime’s missile technology supply chain.
